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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

Gen. Rufus King wa
King Of revolution
ary times. He was
born in 1914, in New
York, and was grad
uated ct West Point
in 1888, beng attach
ed to the engineer
corps. He was in
turn a superintend-
Ing railway engineer,
an editor and minis
ter to Rome. During
the war he was a
brigadier general of
volunteers, attached
to McDowell's corps.
He commanded a di-:
vision during the
C tmpaign of the Ar
NY of Virginia ,subse-
qaent!y taking part
in tho battles of Fred
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

= .
the United States
army on the frontier
until the beginning of
the civil war. Then
he took sides with
the Confederacy and
became one OF the
leading south hern
generals, He fought
prominently in the
battle of Second Bull
Run, and afterward
at Antietam. After
that he was sent
west, and rose to the
pank of lieutenant
general. He lost a
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

command of a brig
ade which did hot
fighting. He held the
Confederate rig ht
Banks threw one of
his columns across
the wheat field and
attacked at that
point. Early, seeing
that he was to be
driven back, called
for re-enforcements.
A brigade from Hills
division was sent to
him.
Jubal Early was
born in Virginia in
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

teers, was a colonel
in the regular army.
He was a West Point
graduate, born in
Delaware in 1922. He
was a gallant Mexi-
can war officer, dis
tinguishing himself
at Cerro Gordo. He
served with distinc-
tion in the Army Of
the Potomac during
the war, taking ac-
tive part in the bat
ties of Pope's cam
paign. Gen. Sykes
lsAI A. fQCn
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49, - .
in 1918. He received
a thorough military
education, partly at
@ training school in
France and after
ward at West Point,
where he graduated
in 1883. He served in
the Mexican war. He
was the commanding
general at the first
battle and Union de
feat at Bull Run,
July, 1861. He was
not blamed for the
defeat, however. He
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

A new amusement is provided at the
London fairs, known as ''topsy turvy."
Passengers are securely strapped in a
barrel and then rolled about,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01
CEDAP MOUNTAIN

By Aug 9 Pope's army was largely concen-
trated between Culpepper Court House and
Cedar mountain. Banks led the advance ard
was not far from Cedar mountain. Pope's
whole force at this time was about 10000.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

those of the next two
days, was a brave
and accomplished
officer. He was born
in New York 1919,
and was graduated
at West Point. He
served in the MeXi-
can war as a captain
of artillery. He was
in Fort Sumter with
Gen. Robert Ander-
son when the war
broke out, and fired
the first gun for the
Union against the
seeded state of
South Carolina, April
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

and soItlerly ap-
pearance. He was
born III Illinois in
1923, and was grad
uated at West Point
before he was %
years old. He was
assigned at once to
the choice engineer
corps and was sent
to Florida to sur
vey the boundary
line there. lie
served with honor
i'll the Mexican
war. After its
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

IN the civil war, he
was not educated at
West Point. He be-
came a lawyer, en-
tered politics, served
four terms in con-
gress, was minister
to Brazil, entered the
army at the outbreak
of the war and be-
came q brigadier gen
eral of volunteers.
He was at the first
battle of Bull Run,
passed through the
campaign of the She
nandoah and took
part in Pope's cam
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

Though many guests be absent, 1t Is
the cheerful man we miss.-Central
African Proverb.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01
ieved he had defeated the Confederates. It
was mistake, as the next day proved.

MANASSAS, OR SECOND BULL RUN.
On Saturday, Aug. so, was fought the
bloody battle which the Federals call the Sec
ond battle of Bull Run. The Confederates
named it Manassas. "As they won it, per-
haps, they have the best right to give it a
name,' writes Mr. John Goldman Ropes.
haiti, Of no goth -iIl..ll Iletchar
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

W ttN hAAtNo hSh1AtA
Webster, colonel Of
the Twelfth Massa-
chusetts regiment,
and only surviving
child Of Daniel Web
ster. He was shot
through the lungs at
the head Of his regi-
ment and died in n
few hours. His death
was greatly lament
ed. lie had held
many responsible
. government Offices
during his life. He
was 80 years old when
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

Gen Irwin Mcdowell commanded Pope's Third
corrs in Virginia He was born in Columbus, o.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01

born in Virginia in
1919 and mac ,-rnxl,,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
A Blind Girls "Sixth Sense"

81 hear talk about people like Laura
Bridgman developing sixth sense, or
something of the sort; pray what is your
opinion rs to that?"
"That sixth sense talk is all nonsense;
of course it is. work with blind people
all the time and never stop wondering at
the way they manage to do things, but of
course see and know in detail how they
use the senses left them in thousand
places where we use our eyes. But l
must say that some of the work done by
Laura's fingers seems marvellous. think
the most wonderful thing is the way she
will Judge of the intelligence of a stranger
by touching his hand. OF course she can
tell less in this way than another person
of her intelligence could by looking at the
face, but she will tell good deal. She
will recognize an idiot in an instant, and
with certainty. She despises persons of
inferior intellect, as you may know, and
will have nothing to do with them. There
is school for idiots near here, and one
day the experiment was tried Of taking
her to drive a roundabout way-she is
very fond of riding-to the place and put
ting the hand of one of the inmates in
hers. But it was of no use; Laura threw
the hand away in an instant, with an ex-
preston of disgust, and said idiot with
her fingers. Cor. Detroit Free Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
LONELINESS or THE CAR.
Not a Man in the World More Deeply
g to be Pitied-The Nihilisfs

--------~N0'
There is not a man in the world more
deeply to be pitied than the present
emperor of Russia. The loneliness of
kings, a loneliness naturally resulting
from their place, which hardly admits of
friendship, and does not admit of equality,
is always terrible, and is frequently felt
by themselves so. severely that they break
through all restraints of prudence and
moral law in order to be rid of it, Rather
than not have friends, people before whom
they can disrobe their minds and sit in
mental slippers, they will give all power
to fayorites, or to women who could be
bought without any such sacrifices of
their states or their subjects The loneli-
ness of a car as absolute as Caesar and
as swiftly obeyed, so far above his sub
jects that Count Tolstoi, in the admirable
series of historic sketches which he calls
"War and Peace" and issues as novel,
describes mobiles as fainting with agitation
at the sight of him, must be almost shock
ing. He is SO utterly master, he can so
completely and instantly make and I'M
make, the hostile exertion of his will, if
he exerted it would be so deadly in its
force that he can have no true equal, OF
friend, or easy companion.
He may, like Alexander II, try to be
bonn camderae, or, like many cars sur
round himself with mistresses; but the
distance remains always too great for true
friendship, or for any perfect alienation
from society of the troubles of the mind,
any Tightening of that burden of empire
which, when his word is always final, SO
presses on the conscience even of evil
kings. 1t is scarcely possible to be wholly
disinterested with car if only for the
terrible powers his mere friendship places
in your hands, scarcely possible, either
for the car not to perceive or to suspect
in every sentence uttered some concealed
intent. In any nature such position
must beget habitual suspicion; and when
the car is by nature or has become
through cruel experience, gloomy, re-
served and unsocial, the suspiciousness
must rise into mastering passion.
Add that the car has been driven by
the Nihilists into life of almost utter Sc
clusion; that he has reason to fear for his
life at every hour in the day and from the
most unlikely quarters; that he is de-
prived of intimates by his virtues as well
as by the dread he inspires, and that he
has no children old enough to share his
thoughts, and we may imagine to what
heights suspiciousness may rise in him
and how near to the sources of fury every
thought may lie.-The Spectator.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
ENGLISH PENNY-A-LINERS.
How They Exc Out a Miserable Exist
ence in London.

How They Exc Out Miserable Exist
ence in London.
Although this is the best season of the
year for the penny-a-liner, met one of
the craft the other day, whom / had
known under happier. circumstances, on
the verge of starvation, and from what he
told me of the profession take it that
"penny -a-lining" is not really SO profit
able a business-in London, anyhow-as
poesy.
Penny-a-lining is one of those profess
sion, the embarkation upon which does
not involve the expenditure Of any very
large amount of capital-all that is needed
for start being certain number of
"fiimsics" and "blacks, !" with q vrllcanite
"plate'' and an agate ststylo." Armed
with these, an ability TO write more or less
legibly, and q smattering Of the queens
English very little of the latter being re-
quired), the embryo liner may set forth
i'm quest of worlds-I had almost said
words--to conquer. He must not be dis
appointed at discovering many in the field
before him, nor at his earlier attempts
finding their way into the sub-editors' w.
p. b., which annually receives so many
miles of what the author regarded as
most interesting copy London is lit
orally overrTIn with these free lanceS of
the press, who are, to large extent, re-
sponsible for the gray hairs and prcma-
ture decay of assistant editors. AL is fish
which comes to the liners net, and there
are few public events which-to vary the
metaphor-do not bring grist to his mill.
Fatal accidents, sensational suicides, hor-
rible murders, speeches by prominent
men, fires, or las he invariably calls
them conflagrations-all are material for
the style and the "flim.''
Great is the liner where inquests are
concerned. In most cases he follows one
particular coroner and listens to case after
case for week after week, in the full and
certain conviction that sooner or later he
will get the temporary monopoly of some,
thing very startling or horrible. London
is too big q city for the regular staff of
any paper to properly cover, and all the
journals of the metropolis are more OF
less dependent upon the penny-a-liner,
who occasionally shamefully imposes upon
the sub-editor when news is scarce and
money scarcer.
Liners may be divided into two classes:
First, those who are regularly engaged upon
the staff of small suburban paper, and who
exc out the miserable stipends which Local
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
A Death at Sea.

"Do invalids usually dread making sea
voyage, DOCTOR"
"They have no fear of the voyage, but
the dread which surrounds the thought of
a possible death at sea completely I'M
nerves them. Suggest a trip abroad and
they will gladly attempt it, for they have
the satisfaction of knowing that in case
they die the remains will be returned to
their friends for decent burial. A burial
at sea, however, haunts them from the
time voyage is suggested until it is over.
Now that the matter Of speed and comfort
is the question of the hour with steamship
companies, they should give some thought
to the subject of burials at sea. 1t is an
important question. Originating when
the only means of transatlantic travel
were sailing vessels, there is no doubt but
that it was necessary to consign a corpse
to the deep, but in these days of rapid
transit and floating palaces it would be an
easy matter to preserve body for several
days In the ollen time lack of facilities
for properly caring for and preserving a
body, coupled with the superstitious dread
of the sailors, rendered it necessary to
heave it over the rail, but now these rea-
sons do not exist. Every steamer should
have surgeon capable of embalming a
corpse and refrigerating compartment to
preserve body for an entire trip. The
terrible dread of being buried at sea has
deferred many from seeking relief in a
warmer cline than this, and they have re-
manned here and died rather than risk
such an end What we need are facilities
and apparatus which will tend to dispel
this dread, and which will tend to add to
the peace of mind of persons taking a sea
voyage in the hope of restoring health. ~
New York Mail and Express.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
Bearing Of Riderless Horses.

Lord George Paget, writing of the "a
nous charge Of the Light Brigade at Bala-
klava, says: Zone incident struck me very
forcibly about this time--the bearing of
riderless horses in such circumstances. !
was of course riding by myself and clear
of the line, and for that reason was a
marked object for the poor dumb brutes.
They consequently made dashes at me,
some advancing with me considerable
distance; at one time as many as five on
my right and two on my left cringing in
on me, and positively squeezing me as the
round shot came bounding by them.
remarked their eyes, betokening as keen
a sense of the perils around them as we
human beings experienced, and that is
saying good deal. The bearing of the
horse was riding, in contrast to these,
was remarkable. He had been struck, but
showed no signs of fear, thus evineing the
confidence of dumb animals in the supe-
rior being. THE Argonaut.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14

Nearly comfortable. lie says tnat IN
crossing snowy plains through Dakota,
when everybody was bundled up to the
eyes, man accustomed to the country
suddenly threw back his heavy ulster col
lar, exclaiming: -
"There, we've struck Chinook wind.
Now we are all right. I'm going out on
the platform" y r.
Those not accustomed to the idiosyn-
crasies of the American climate in that
especial locality regarded the man as be-
side himself, but when the platform was
visited by the more daring ones it was
discovered that the temperature was that
of mild spring day. The snow every
where was visibly melting with much
rapidity, and the mysterious wind seemed
to have blown in new season. The name
of this warm breeze is the same as that of
tribe of Indians of British Columbia,
who perhaps manufacture it, and it is said
to be so warm that it destroys three or
four feet of snow in a single night. The
gentleman who relates this thermic yoy-
age closes by relating how when he ar
rived ut Portland pansies were blooming
in the garden beds, and mildness had pos
session of the land; an ending which is
especially effective in these frozen days.
Providence Journal
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
Weddings In Scotland.

The following are reported to have been
joined in matrimony last year in Scot
land: Thomas Black and Mary White,
Peter Day and Ellen Night, Solomon Bank
and Catharine Vale, James Hill and Su-
san Dale, Isaac Slater and Julia Thatcher,
John Baker and Mary Butcher, Stephen
Head and Nancy Heart, William Stately
and Jessie Smart, Joseph Reed and Julia
Hay, Thomas Spring and Mary May, Jo-
seph Brown and Kittie Green, John Robin
and Jennie Wren, William Castle and
Nancy Hall, Peter Chatter aud Jennie
Call, Joseph Mann and Eliza Child, James
Merry and Lucy Wild, Thomas Bruin and
Mary Bear, James Fox and Catherine
Hare, Andrew Clay and Lucy Stone,
Michael Blood and Lizzie Bone, John
Cloak and Julia Hood, Edward Cole and
Nancy Wood, James Broom and Helen
Birch, Carlis Chapel and Susan Church.
This rather peculiar list of names was
furnished us by Samuel Cromwell, of
Wharton township, who copied them from
The Hampshire Advertiser, in which they
were published, and vouches for their ac-
curacy.-Exchange
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14

London pIviJii5Voi5 regard as sunlcienJ ny
thinning" anything of sufficient import
ance for the big dailies which they may
happen to come across in their own dis
trict. These may be regarded as the more
respectable half of the profession. The
somewhat shadier portion is composed of
out-at-elbows gentlemen, broken down
hacks, men dismissed. for drunkenness
from the higher walks of journalism, ETC. !;
men to whom the non-insertion of
par" means absolute starvation, and it
is small wonder that sub-editors are now
and then chad" A party of four or five
liners gather together in bar parlor, and
report their own vaporings over their
pipes and whisky as IAN important politi
cal gathering" and quite recently the
dead body of man was several times
found hanging in one Of our parks, which
corpse was never discovered by the park
rangers or police. Sunday papers go in
largely for inquests, and it would not do
for too close an inquiry to be made into
some of the particulars reported as having
taken place yesterday" while the man
ner in which liners try to z''runn one an
other after something of the kind is not a
little diverting. The rule of most papers
is, first come, first served; but some subs
have their favorites, who are the envy of
their less fortunate brethren.-Cor. Phila,
delphia Telegraph.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
A Story Of Grant.

At the yearly meeting in Association hall
the other evening of the Society for the Sup
preston of Vice, the secretary's report
showed that ,036 obscene pictures and &C.,
1888 indecent circulars had been seized dur
ing the year. The expenses were more than
$4,000.
Gen. Clinton B. Fisk compared the socie-
tvs work with that of the White Cross So
ciety. cat Vicksburg," he related, "a
council of officers had been held in Gen.
Grants tent; when it was over man in tho
uniform of a major general rose and said he
had just heard good story he would like
torepeat. There are no ladies present,
think, he said. No, sir, said Gen. Grant,
there are no ladies present, but there are
a number of gentlemen The major gen.
eral did not tell the story.-New York
Snn ..
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
A German Brigadier's Idea.

Our German troops did yeoman's SER
vice during the war, but it was hard for
some of them to adopt American ideas,
especially in military matters, and they
occasionally had strange views Of the war
and the best means of bringing it to an
end. At the battle Of Charlottesville the
Eleventh corps, largely composed OF Ger
mans, was broken by Jackson, and re-
treated in considerable disorder, to put it
very mildly. After the retrograde move
ment that followed that battle officers of
various corps were in the habit of discuss
ing the cause of the giving away of the
Eleventh and of the failure of the opera
tions. was present when number of
officers, high in rank, were talking about
the matter, some assigning one reason and
some another. At length German briga-
dier arose, and with an air which implied
that no contradiction was possible, said;
81 will tell you what de trouble is, gentle
men; deere is too much of de American ele-
ment in dis army" This oracular an
nouncement set the company in a roar,
but is no unfair example of the feeling
which was entertained by too many of our
foreign officers. r. L. Converse ia
Globe Democrat.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
Work of an Amanuensis.

Pushed as the writer always is to the
highest rate of speed which he commands,
he must bend every energy to the task.
Brain and muscle must be strained to the
utmost to accomplish their work, and, the
notes completed, he must set to work with
assiduity to transcribe them for use, a
task requiring, as he knows, four times
the period occupied by the dictation, but
which fact many otherwise intelligent
masters are frequently unable to compre-
bend. The strangest experience of short
hand writers is the inability of the en-
ployer to understand the difference be-
tween spoken and written language as
to the proportion of time required to pro-
duce them respectively, and the annoy
ance which is the outgrowth of this ignor-
ance is one of the peculiar hardships of
the shorthand writer.
1t is as though messenger should be
required to emulate a racehorse in celer-
ity of motion. He therefore bends all his
energies to hasten his transcript, and his
days work leaves him fatigued beyond
any of his fellow clerks. For this reason
the work is not adapted to women. The
strain is too great, and although in some
instances a good constitution may enable
the worker to endure for years, injury is
sustained which is generally irreparable.
IF, p. Fairbanks in the Journalist.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
Inks and InlSstands.

The evolution of script after printing
was invented, or for little time before,
can only be understood by comparative
study of manuscripts as collated at great
European libraries. The inks formerly
used were rather paints than writing
fluids, since it was not desirable that they
should flow too freely from the stylus.
The use of such as are popular now would
in ancient times have been impossible.
An inkstand in any of the ingenious mod
ern forms was for this reason unnecessary
The Arabs have used from time immemo-
rial the combined brass or silver pen and
ink case, the long part for his sharpened
reeds, and a sort of box with tight cover
at one end foiehis semi-fuid ink. These
admit of high degree of ornament. The
inkhorn of the clerk of the middle ages is
often alluded to by old English writers, 1t
was the first parent of the elegant thing
in cut glass which may be overturned with
Francisco Chronicle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
California's Beet Sugar Industry.

At AlvaradO the beet sugar mills con-
sumo twenty-five tons of coal per day, we
are told, and they account for the great
fields of beets, which produce successive
crops during the year, and seem capable
of supplying the vegetable, as vegetable,
to the whole world. The size of the root
may be imagined from the weight, which
is said to be from ten to twenty pounds
each. The entire region, indeed, between
Alameda and Los Gatos about fifty miles,
seems to be cultivated as a market gar
den for San Francisco. There are whole
ranches farmsl devoted TO the cultivation
of speciality Strawberries, tomatoes, as
paragus and the like until the road enters
the Santa Clara valley, and we pass an
other beautiful town, San Jose, and are in
the midst of one Of the rich garden spots
of CALIFORNIA; land of grapes, melons,
figs, oranges, apricots, lemons, plums,
pomegranates and every variety of tenn
perate and semi tropical fruit. Here are
whole orchards of almonds and acres of
filberts, and groves from which the
oranges had only recently been plucked.-
New York Graphic. .